A review by beccajreads
City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams
3.0
At over 900 pages this is a very long book and as such took me a very long time to read.
This is a book that I find hard to describe. Set around a future society where Virtual Reality is the norm (as a way to play games or access the net, or talk to others etc.) this novel takes a number of different stories that eventually interlink, but that you don't understand how they will or why the will until you are way over halfway through! The writing is excellent and William's imagination is brilliant to be able to fit everything together but to also keep everything so separate and mysterious throughout - even now after finishing there are things that don't quite make sense of fit together. But I suppose that is what the next 3 books are for!
I will admit I had to read shorter 'easier' read books when reading this because it's so long and at times felt like it would never end!
This is a book that I find hard to describe. Set around a future society where Virtual Reality is the norm (as a way to play games or access the net, or talk to others etc.) this novel takes a number of different stories that eventually interlink, but that you don't understand how they will or why the will until you are way over halfway through! The writing is excellent and William's imagination is brilliant to be able to fit everything together but to also keep everything so separate and mysterious throughout - even now after finishing there are things that don't quite make sense of fit together. But I suppose that is what the next 3 books are for!
I will admit I had to read shorter 'easier' read books when reading this because it's so long and at times felt like it would never end!